By Alan Steinberg Let me be the first journalist to nominate Senator Ted Cruz and CancunGate for the Chris Christie Insouciance in Government Award for 2021. This distinction is named after former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and his DisneyWorldGate vacation during a massive Jersey snowstorm in 2010. And I […]
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Yet that’s exactly what Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) chose to do. While hospitals around the state lost power and were forced to evacuate patients, homes went dark and frozen water pipes burst, icy roads forced terrible choices between risking the cold at home or chancing the journey to power and […]
By Charles E. Kraus Abe Lincoln was born on the same day as my father. This was no coincidence. My father told me to say that. Both these great men have ceased to walk the topsoil. In the old days, my old days, it was handy that the state we […]
Welcome to 2021, finally. Though plenty of challenges remain, there is something reassuring about the promise of a new year. Specifically, the coronavirus vaccine is a shooting star to which many of us are attaching our hopes for better, healthier, and more prosperous days. Among all its hard lessons, 2020 […]
Voting in the final round of the Best of Madison County 2021 contest is off to a fast start. The voting began Friday and by Sunday morning, already 5,900 votes had been cast. That’s 45% of the way to the total number of votes in the 2020 contest. And seven […]
As a case manager for a nonprofit that serves older adults, veterans and adults with disabilities in Texas, I’ve seen social services move online as a way to more efficiently get assistance to people without exposing them to the virus. And yet, this only exacerbates the digital divide. Many of […]
By John J. Metro Where do you see your personal growth in the next five or 10 years? What about our community’s growth, how we commute, utilize parks and occupy housing? The Jersey City master plan survey is a questionnaire asking residents for input on community objectives and the future […]
Ms. Hayden, Mr. McGee and Mr. Panayides shared an entrepreneurial streak. They expressed a desire for connection with others and sought to achieve it online. But their attempts at conventional influencing (via modeling, reality television, running a small business and sharing motivational content) brought only modest attention. It wasn’t until […]
Four years later, not only is Trump about to be impeached for the second time after getting trounced in his reelection bid, the Trump brand is likely to be destroyed. Though he will never receive the full comeuppance he deserves for his myriad misdeeds, those hoping for accountability can take […]
I’m a sucker for New Year’s Resolutions. Like most other people, I tend to fail between Jan. 15 and Feb. 1. Around Christmas of 2019, I started thinking about the “new me” I was going to build in the new year. And then I thought again. I rarely have success […]
How will America look after all this is over? Under normal times, Wednesday would be just another day. Congressional certification of the electoral college winner is nothing new. Neither is a presidential oath-taking. Both are ceremonial formalities that memorialize politically settled events. Likewise, political protests on any given day and […]
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND BLESSINGS TO ALL: A tree with ornaments and a star or angel at the top, Santa Claus bearing gifts, food that is tasty and carols to sing, it’s Christmastime! Make Christmas special year after year and enjoy the experience. A meaningful time of memories that will linger […]
We all need uplift this terrible year, so here’s inspiring news about some young heroes and the good they’ve achieved on a wrenching topic. Young men and women who had been exploited by Pornhub as children shared their stories, their documentation and their mortification in hopes that this might prevent […]
In a public-health crisis that is killing more than 2,200 Americans a day, it is easy enough to meet that burden. It takes a bit more effort to see, as Dr. Srinivasan argues we should, how the very existence of such forced trade-offs constitutes a form of invisible injustice, “a […]
Editor’s note: The Jersey Journal editorial board stands by its previous editorial and rebuts this letter in a new post. By George Solter A recent editorial in The Jersey Journal makes several blatantly false claims regarding our district’s pre-K program that I feel need to be addressed publicly. It would […]
The Republican message couldn’t have been clearer: Workers should be able to show up, clock in, earn a normal paycheck, pay the rent and feed their kids. Democrats were telling the same workers that we need to listen to science, reopening is premature, and the economy can’t be fully restored […]
By Clifford Kulwin Earlier this week, Emma Green wrote in The Atlantic that four years of President Trump “has made it harder than ever to separate evangelicalism from politics.” She’s right, and no-one embodies that reality better than newly-elected Congressman Madison Cawthorn. Profiles of the 25-year-old North Carolina conservative frequently […]
By Shoa Moosavi “Mars.” “Jimi Hendrix’s ‘The Sky is Crying.’ ” “The apocalypse.” These are a few of the comments made by Oakland Athletics’ players and staff about the eerie skies that resulted from the wildfires that devastated the team’s home state of California in September. During one stretch of […]
MARYN CARPENTER AND MEGAN DOBIE ARE WINNERS: Lempke-Blackwell VFW Post 7573 Auxiliary member and contest Chair Sandi VanTiem is excited to announce the essay contest winners for 2020. The girls’ essays are now at the district level. Winning works then travel to the state and national levels. The Patriot’s Pen […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: NJ Cannabis Insider produces exclusive weekly content and monthly events geared toward those interested in the marijuana and hemp industries. To subscribe, visit njcannabisinsider.biz. The same week the ballot question passed on Election Day, lawmakers introduced a bill that will launch the marijuana industry to provide guidance for […]
As an American citizen who spends time each year in both cities, I have lived through what feels like a bipolar response to covid-19. It is almost as if Hong Kong and the United States are dealing with different diseases. One country has dug in its heels; the other has […]
By Jerry McCann Recent letters to the editor and guest editorials fail to get it right when talking about contaminants in Liberty State Park. The contaminated area has been fenced off since 1980 when contamination was dumped on the state park by the Army Corps of Engineers, the Port Authority […]